Necktie attachment



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United States Patent 3,517,395 NECKTIE ATTACHMENT Masanobu Shimoi, 43 6-ch0me, Nishiimagawamachi, Higashisumiyoshiku, Osaka, Japan Continuation-impart of application Ser. No. 669,197, Sept. 20, 1967. This application Jan. 28, 1969, Ser. No. 794,747

Int. Cl. A41b 25/08, 25/14 US. Cl. 2-153 Claims ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE A necktie attachment comprises a winged attachment body made of a soft pliable material and provided with elastic arms each having an engagement portion formed with elastic hook-shaped filaments for engagement with piled fabric portion of the neckband of a shirt. A necktie, tied or attached to the body, can be attached to and detached from the shirt by the operation of the engagement portions. The body may be elastic and flexibly made so that both arms may be extended and both engagement portions may be turned toward the front of the neck or the back of the collar of the shirt for engagement with the piles on the back of the collar.

This application is a continuation-in-part of US. application Ser. No. 669,197 filed Sept. 20, 1967 and now abandoned.

This invention relates to improvements in a necktie attachment.

Irrespective of whether a necktie is a regular type tie or a bow-tie, it is a general practice in Wearing the necktie to pass a portion thereof round the neck, tie and tighten the same in front of the throat. Accordingly, when the necktie is put on, the same not only creates a feeling of unnaturalness or tightness on the neck but goes so far as to give a heavy oppressive feeling to the neck depending upon a manner in which the necktie is tied, because the same is passed round the neck and especially because the nerve of the neck is sensitive and pressure is imparted from round the neck region to the artery and nervous system in a direction of the center of the neck, thus constituting causes for great uncomfortableness, stiff shoulders and fatigue that are bad for the health. The abovedescribed conventional manner of wearing a necktie cannot relieve the wearer of the trouble to pass a portion of the tie round the backside of the collar of a shirt and to tie the necktie in the desired form or adjust the length thereof every time the necktie is worn, nor can the same be free from the disadvantage that the knot of the necktie gets out of shape in accordance with the repeated move ments of the various regions of the human body. On the other hand, a conventional clip type necktie holder or attachment is used by catching the same on a button of the throat portion of the shirt or on the front of the neck portion thereof and is not free not only from the drawback that the same lacks elasticity or flexibility, but from the disadvantage that, while the same creates a feeling of unnaturalness on the throat region of the wearer, said holder or attachment is not so easy to be attached, liable to get out of engagement and cannot keep itself held in position in which the same was attached at the beginning.

An object of this invention is to provide a necktie attachment of simple construction wherein the wearer is not only relieved from the inconvenience with which a portion of the necktie has to be passed round the neck portion of a shirt but on the contrary he is afforded the convenience with which the necktie can be tied in a fine-looking form ice prior to actual wearing, and wherein the necktie can be quickly attached and detached by simple handling, irrespective of whether the same is a bow-tie or a regular type tie and wherein, because the necktie is not passed round the neck but is supportedly engaged with the neck portion of the shirt only at two points adjacent thereto by means of the necktie attachment, the same does not bring about pressure which would otherwise be given to the artery and the nerve in a direction of the center of the neck, thus relieving the wearer of his oppressive feeling and fatigue due to the tying of the necktie, maintaining the tied portion of the necktie in a fine-looking and proper position and keeping the necktie held in position in which the same was initially worn, and accordingly the necktie of this invention provides one of solutions to the problem as to what clothing should be functionally and rationally from a viewpoint of human engineering.

The aforestated progressiveness and characteristic aspects of the invention will become apparent from the following description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings wherein:

FIG. 1 is a front view of an embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 2 is a back view of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a plan View of FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a front view showing how the necktie is tied;

FIG. 5 is a front view of a modification of the invention;

FIG. 6 is a side view of FIG. 5;

FIG. 7 is a plan view of the modification of the invention to which the bow-tie is fastened;

FIG. 8 is a back view of FIG. 7;

FIG. 9 is a front view of the essential parts showing the engagement portion of a shirt;

FIG. 10 is a front view of a further modification of a shirt with the attachment piles on the back of the collar;

FIG. 11 is a front view of a shirt or blouse with the attachment piles on the back of the collar;

FIG. 12 is a front view of the attachment piece to be attached to piles selected optionally from among those provided on the neckband and back of the collar of a shirt; and

FIG. 13 is a front view of the attachment piece provided with elastic hook-shaped filaments corresponding to the piles on the back of the collar.

Referring now to the drawings, numeral 1 indicates an attachment piece formed of a soft (rubberlike) pliable elastic material such as vinyl chloride resin or polyethylene resin. The piece 1 has winged arms including rearwardly on both flanks 2 thereof, said both flanks 2 having the outermost end thereof formed into engagement portions 2a, to the inner surfaces of which are adhered engagement pieces 5 having innumerable elastic hook-shaped filaments 4 densely raised from the surfaces thereof. The central front portion 3 of the piece 1 is formed into a shape suitable for supporting a tied portion of a necktie A. The front portion 3 is in an inverted triangular shape as shown in FIG. 1 to make it possible to tie the necktie in a regular tie style. The piece 1 shown in FIG. 3 illustrates a modification in which a supporter 6" protrudes in back of the central front portion 3. In the embodiment, the fact that said supporter 6' acts as a support makes it possible for the tied portion or knot of the necktie to protrude in a fine-looking manner from the center of the neck portion of the shirt.

FIGS. 5 and 6 show an embodiment in which the attachment piece 11 is formed into such a shape that the central front portion 13 protrudes forwardly of the attachment body so as to allow fixing of a bow-tie. In this case a necktie B comprises forming the knot of a bowtie by the use of a tie strip 17, applying the central front 13 of the attachment piece 11 to the back of the knot and then sewing together or adhering the knot lapping over the central fronts 13 by an adhesive agent. Numeral 16 indicates a joint of a looped band 18. The way of connecting the bow-tie to the attachment piece may vary with users wish. For example, the looped band 18 is looped in the central front of the attachment piece, and then the bow-tie strip 17 may be inserted into the looped space between the front of the central front 13 and the looped band 18. When the front portion 13 is protruded forwardly as shown in the figure, the bow-tie can be free from the disadvantage that the butterfly winglike portions of the bow-tie strip 17 are bent by the obstruction of the collar of the shirt. Furthermore, the rectangular area of the front portion 13 is effective in making vertical and longitudinal stability stronger.

As described, the necktie A or B tied in any desired form and fixed to the attachment piece 1 is fastened to the shirt in such a manner that, first, engagement pieces 21 each made of soft piled fabric and having innumerable piles 22 densely raised from the surfaces thereof are fastened to a point spaced on both sides at an equal distance from the central front of the neckband 23 of the shirt S as shown in FIG. 9 and engagement pieces provided on the engagement portions 2 of the attachment piece 1 are brought into engagement with said engagement pieces 21. The engagement pieces 5 and 21 are made of a material sold on the market under the trademark Magic Tape and are dependent upon the engageability of the material for the mutual engagement thereof. Thus the hook-shaped portions at the ends of the elastic hookshaped filaments 4 of the engagement pieces 5 hook themselves into the piles 22 of the other engagement pieces 21, and when the pieces 5 are disengaged from the pieces 21, the end portions of the elastic hook-shaped filaments 4 stretch themselves by pulling and are disconnected. In the engageable material of the construction described, free selection of the fastening position of one engagement piece with respect to the other engagement piece is possible, and accordingly even if the position of the engagement pieces 21 attached to the neckband of the shirt is fixed, it is easy to position the necktie A or B just in the middle of the neck portion of the shirt by the selection of the fastening position of the engagement pieces 5.

In this invention, the attachment pieces 1 and 11 are made of a soft flexible material, making it possible to rationalize the relation of the necktie with the shirt in time of donning and doffing the latter. That is to say, disengagement of only one engagement portion of the winged attachment piece from that of the neckband of the shirt makes it possible to dolf the shirt without taking the trouble to disengage at a time two engagement portions of the attachment piece from those of the neckband but by merely undoing the buttons of the shirt. Thus the shirt is doifed with the necktie left connected by the other engagement portion to the shirt and accordingly, next time the shirt is donned, the only thing the wearer should do is to mate said one disengaged engagement portion with the engagement piece of the neckband, whereby he is relieved of the trouble to tie the necktie and can greatly save the time to dress.

Also, the attachment piece of this invention is made of a soft elastic material, making it possible to turn the engagement pieces 5 provided on the back of the engagement portions 2a, in a direction opposite to that of the neckband of the shirt S, that is, toward the collar 24, as shown in FIG. by twisting the arms 2. So the piles 25 to engage with the hook-shaped filaments 4 of the attachment piece 1 may be provided on the back of the collar 26, as shown by those 25 in FIG. 10.

The above-described embodiment is characterized as follows:

As shown in FIG. 11, it serves to fasten with ease a necktie to the piles 35 on the back of the collar 36 of, for example, the blouse B without a neckband, by the use of the attachment piece 1. Also, it makes it possible to put on a necktie without fastening the neckbutton of a mens shirt, and, therefore, to relieve the wearer of an oppressive feeling from tightening his neck with the tie after buttoning the front of the stiff neckband.

An advantage of this invention is that it makes it possible to secure with case a necktie or other collar ornaments despite the flexibility of knit cloth if such material is used for a shirt or blouse instead of woven material.

Another is that it brings the filaments 4 into far easier engagement with the piles by making it possible to utilize the piles 45 on the back of the collar 46 or those 47 on the neckband 48 of the shirt S, as shown in FIG. 12, if piles are provided in both places. For the engagement pieces 5 can be turned inward or backward.

A modification of the attachment piece 51 shown in FIG. 13 is that the engagement pieces 55, provided in a direction opposite to that of FIG. 13, that is, facing the front, are applied to a shirt or blouse having piles on the back of the collar.

Since the attachment piece 1 is pliable on the winglike portions thereof, the same is easy of handling in mating itself with the engagement pieces of the neckband and gives more comfortableness to the wearer than the conventional rigid clip type attachment piece made as of metal or hard plastic. Moreover, the attachment piece of the invention expands and contracts in propor tion to the movement of the neck region by elasticity and flexibility, and accordingly the wearer is relieved of a feeling of tightness and can wear the necktie in a natural manner, and even without a neck button.

As already apparent, the necktie attachment of the invention can dispense with as much material as is required for passing round the neck and is useful for economizing so much use and cost of material, thus allowing efficient use of a high quality material such as silk.

What is claimed is:

1. A necktie supporting attachment comprising a winged attachment body made of a soft pliable material having two winged elastic arms of relatively small crosssectional area normally extending rearwardly from a central portion of substantially greater vertical dimension than said arms, the outermost ends of said arms having engagement portions of substantially greater vertical dimension than said arms and extending from said arms, said engagement portions each having engagement pieces on the ends thereof and said engagement pieces each having fine elastic hook-shaped filaments densely raised from the surfaces thereof for engagement with a shirt collar so as to retain the attachment in position with respect to the shirt collar.

2. A necktie attachment according to claim 1 wherein the attachment body is made of a material which is elastic enough for the engagement pieces to be turned toward the front when the arm-s are twisted wtihout substantially deforming said attachment.

3. A necktie attachment according to claim 1 wherein the attachment body is provided on the backside of the central portion thereof with a protruding support portion.

4. The invention of claim 1 wherein said central support portion comprises a generally rectangular member as viewed from the front for enabling the attachment of a bow-tie thereto.

5. The invention of claim 1 wherein said winged elastic arms normally extend upwardly of said central portion.

6. The invention of claim 5 wherein said engagement pieces extend rearwardly from the backside of said engagement portion.

7. The invention of claim 6 wherein the attachment body is made of a material which is elastic enough for the engagement pieces to be turned toward the front 5 when the arms are twisted without substantially deforming said attachment.

8. The invention of claim 6 wherein the attachment body is provided on the backside of the central portion thereof with a protruding support portion.

9. The necktie supporting attachment of claim 5 Wherein said engagement pieces extend forwardly from the front side of said engagement portion.

10. The invention of claim 9 wherein the attachment body is provided on the backside of the central portion thereof with a protruding support portion.

6 References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS PATRICK D. LAWSON, Primary Examiner US. Cl. X.R. 

